Google quietly launches Google Tasks
Update: Well that didn't take long. Apparently Google really hadn't meant to unleash this service on the public just yet, because the URL no longer works.
Google has, without any fanfare, apparently launched an online task manager application cleverly called Google Tasks. This appears to be a more fleshed out version of the Gmail Tasks widget that showed up in Gmail Labs a few months ago. And the services are linked. If you create a task in one application, it will show up in the other. In fact, it's possible that Google Tasks is little more than the backend for the Gmail Tasks widget, but it does offer a decent way to create and manage tasks from one location.
You can nest tasks within one another, and add notes to any task. You can also set due dates and check off tasks when they're completed. Users can create, edit, and delete multiple task lists. But only the default list will be shared with your Gmail account.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
Google has, without any fanfare, apparently launched an online task manager application cleverly called Google Tasks. This appears to be a more fleshed out version of the Gmail Tasks widget that showed up in Gmail Labs a few months ago. And the services are linked. If you create a task in one application, it will show up in the other. In fact, it's possible that Google Tasks is little more than the backend for the Gmail Tasks widget, but it does offer a decent way to create and manage tasks from one location.
You can nest tasks within one another, and add notes to any task. You can also set due dates and check off tasks when they're completed. Users can create, edit, and delete multiple task lists. But only the default list will be shared with your Gmail account.
[via Google Blogoscoped]













Comments
5
Subscribe to commentsUzEEMar 3rd 2009 2:21PM
The service isn't working now.. the link is down.
Robert HMar 3rd 2009 2:37PM
If you had managed to get in before they switched it of, the FAQ link showed some nice NDA verbage for "Trusted Testers", so this was just an oopsie in enabling it for the general public for a few hours.
El TacoMar 3rd 2009 4:59PM
lol, love the pic brad
NittonMar 3rd 2009 5:20PM
dudes, this is already been here for mobile devices (iphone in particular), for a while now...
www.google.com/m?page=2#tasks
what's new here...
JonMar 4th 2009 8:59AM
Whats new is that this wasn't discovered until after the others had been released (although this was the beta test of the product). You have to edit tasks in Gmail, iGoogle, or the mobile device, there was no 'google tasks' page.
Though, what confuses me, is that DS didn't post this until AFTER the site had come down!